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To: ansel12

You are pushing one proposition: That Catholic priests are more likely to be attracted to boys and to molest boys than other social categories of men.

That is false.

You can choose either to look for accurate data, or continue to indulge your appetites.


103 posted on 09/16/2013 6:15:05 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Pushing something, appetites? I asked for clarification of your instruction to look at the Episcopalian Priests and homosexuality.

You made a strange post to me, “”If you are hunting for homosexuals, try the Anglicans and Episcopalians.””

I naturally asked you “”is the homosexual/boy fascination angle as prevalent in the smaller Episcopalian denomination as it is in the Catholic one?””

Your answer doesn’t make sense, it just sounds hostile.


105 posted on 09/16/2013 6:30:54 PM PDT by ansel12 ( 'I'm on That New Obama Diet... Every Day I Let Vladimir Putin Eat My Lunch' .)
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To: Arthur McGowan; ansel12
You can choose either to look for accurate data, or continue to indulge your appetites.

Tip of the iceberg... The source is a Catholic source. We all know there would never be any attempt the suppress statistics... (do I need a /sarcasm tag?) Plus, we know they would never conceal it.

The apparent default term currently being used for those opposing Rome and its followers is anti-Catholic. I prefer the term "Christian"!

... The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops commissioned the John Jay College of Criminal Justice to conduct a comprehensive study based on surveys completed by the Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States. The product of the study, titled the John Jay Report indicated that some 11,000 allegations had been made against 4,392 priests in the USA. This number constituted approximately 4% of the priests who had served during the period covered by the survey (1950–2002).[28] ...
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases_in_the_United_States


111 posted on 09/16/2013 9:56:54 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("So we're bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I'm the idiot?" - Sarah Palin)
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